TABLE 2.

Characteristics of vegetables and fruit served as a snack to preschool children

		Composition per 100 g1
Food	Preparation	Energy	Carbohydrate	Sugar	Fiber	Water
		kcal	g	g	g	g
Vegetables
Cucumber	Raw slices with half the peel removed in strips2	14	2.9	1.5	0.6	96.0
Sweet pepper	Raw strips of yellow type2	27	6.3	4.23	0.9	92.0
Tomato	Raw whole grape type2	18	3.9	2.6	1.2	94.5
Fruit
Apple	Raw unpeeled slices4	52	13.8	10.4	2.4	85.6
Peach	Slices canned in juice, drained4	61	15.7	10.6	0.7	83.4
Pineapple	Rings canned in juice, drained, and cut in half5	60	15.6	14.3	1.3	83.5

¹Food-composition data from the National Nutrient Database (16).

²Giant Food Stores.

³Sugar content of red sweet pepper; no data are available for yellow sweet pepper.

⁴Sysco Corp.

⁵Dole Food Company Inc.